00013 53. In the Matter of Norbeft Zongo and Others v. Burkina Faso, the Court stated that "the reasonableness of a time limit of seizure will depend on the particular circumstances of each case and should be determined on a case-by-case basis.,,ro Accordingly, the Court, taking the circumstances of each case into account, specifies the date from which the time should be computed and then determines whether an application has been filed within a reasonable time from such date. 54. ln the instant case, the court notes that the judgment of the court of Appeal in criminal Appeal No. 182 of 2010 was delivered on '1g December, 2012. The Application was filed before this court on I December,201s, that is, two (2) years and eleven (11) months) after the judgment of the court of Appeal. The key issue here is whether this time can be considered as reasonable in light of the particular circumstances of the Applicant. 55. The Respondent state does not dispute that the Applicant is a lay, indigent and incarcerated person without the benefit of legal education or assistance.ll These circumstances make it plausible that the Applicant may not have been aware of the Court's existence and how to access it. 56. ln view of these circumstances, the Court is of the opinion that the filing of this Application two (2) years and eleven (11) months after the exhaustion of local remedies is a reasonable time and therefore, dismisses the Respondent State's objection in this regard. B. Conditions of admissibility that are not in contention between the parties 57. The conditions of admissibility regarding the identity of the Applicant, the Application's compatibility with the constitutive Act of the African Union, the language used in the Application, the nature of the evidence, and the principle that an Application must not raise any matter already determined in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, the provisions of the Charter or of any other legal instruments of the African Union 'f Zongo and Others judgment, para. " 92 See Alex Thomas judgment, para.74. t4 |